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Unemployment continues to fall

The monthly publication of changes in prices of consumer goods and services. The price changes are shown as an index. Inflation is calculated as the percentage of change of the consumer price index...

Dutch central government paid just over 10.4 billion euros in income-related allowances for housing, health care and children in 2013. Spending on care allowances, in particular, rose, to 5.1 billion...

Producers’ confidence in the manufacturing industry is 6.1 in April 2006. This means manufacturers are about just as optimistic as in March.

In the first quarter of 2009 there were 23 thousand more jobs of employees than in the same quarter of 2008. This brought the number of jobs to 7.9 million.

Dutch people rate their life satisfaction at 7.8, taking them to fifth place within the EU.

In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.

Dissertation on methods to deal with nonresponse in survey research for individuals and households.

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, Dutch consumer spending on goods and services was up by 1.9 percent in March 2015 on the same month last year. Consumers spent more on...

Nearly 950 thousand persons received long-term care in 2012. Due to the ageing population, the number of long-term care recipients has increased dramatically over the period 2004-2012. Because the...

Big data has received increasing attention across several disciplines in recent years. In official statistics, big data potentially enables us to produce statistics cheaper, faster, and on a higher...

People in paid employment are generally healthier than people without a job. Of all employed persons, 90 percent rate their health as good or excellent.

Nearly 71 percent of Dutch goods exports in 2018 went to other countries within the EU, although the EU's share has declined slightly relative to 2010.

In 2018, the total value of Dutch-manufactured goods exported to the United Kingdom dropped by 170 million euros to 20.2 billion euros, representing a year-on-year decrease of 1 percent.

The Dutch retail sector achieved 3.3 percent turnover growth in 2018. In the month of December, turnover grew by 2.3 percent.

The number of inhabitants with a migration background is highly likely to increase until the year 2050.

One percent of the Dutch population aged 20 years or older are morbidly obese.

Container transhipment increased substantially at Dutch seaports in 2017.

The share of women in agriculture fluctuates around one-third of the total number of persons employed in that sector.

The consumer price index rose by 1.4 percent on average in 2017 on the previous year.